The new Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge,embracing Biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology, and Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest times to the present day;based on the 3d ed. of the Realencyklop{uml}adie founded by J. J. Herzog, and edited by Albert Hauck, prepared by more than six hundred scholars and specialists under the supervision of Samuel Macauley Jackson (editor-in-chief) with the assistance of Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore (associate editors) and [others]